As someone firmly on the "women in tech side", this is an awful method of attack. Gender should be a consideration but it should truly be (one of) the last one(

As someone firmly on the "women in tech side", this is an awful method of attack. Gender should be a consideration but it should truly be (one of) the last one(s), way after skills, work history, personality, etc. Measures like this are dehumanizing and useless, and more importantly they provide fodder for actual sexists with which to undermine their female colleagues. Affirmative action can work when it's considerate and sensitive and humane--which sounds like the polar opposite of everything you're trying to do here.